214. Unveiled - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• EXT. DECK - DAY


• INAYA and JUDY sit on comfortable deck chairs watching their friends splash around in the pool.


• Inaya adjusts her hijab and laughs as one of the BOYS does a bellyflop.


• Judy watches her adjust the cloth.


• JUDY
• I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend you or anything, but why do you still wear that thing?


• Inaya turns to her, surprised.


• INAYA
• That's loaded statement. It's not a thing. It's a Hijab. I'm pretty sure I know what you want to say, but I don't jump to conclusions, so spit it out.


• JUDY
• I mean, it's a symbol of oppression; you're a feminist, a strong woman, and yet you're chained to that.


• INAYA
• Wow, you keep going with the loaded words. Chained? Really? This is a choice.


• JUDY
• But women are forced to wear those to protect some man's ego and sense of piety.


• INAYA
• I was not forced to wear this. I made a choice because I felt it honored my religion.


• She reaches over and touches the crucifix on Judy's neck.


• INAYA
• I could say that you shouldn't wear that because it stands for hundreds of years of oppression and war; but I don't, because I understand that it stands for something much deeper and much purer than that. You wear it to honor and celebrate your beliefs. The same reasons I wear my hijab.


• JUDY
• Wow.


• INAYA
• And don't assume every man whose wife wears a hijab is a misogynist pig. My mother wore a burkha all her life but that says nothing about my father. He loved as much as a man can love a woman and respected her.


• JUDY
• I'm sorry, I guess I should be more careful about getting caught up in stereotypes.


• Inaya relaxes her shoulders.


• INAYA
• No worries...I forget how foreign all this must seem sometimes.


• They sit in silence for a bit.


• JUDY
• I think I'm going to have to recover from the tongue-lashing, but when I do, I'd like to hear more. Now you've got me intrigued.


• Inaya blushes.


• Judy stands and walks into the house.


• FADE TO BLACK.